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My problem with these shows is not that the aliens aren't "super smart". It's the the subtext of childish human superiority. It's as if the writers have some sort of trauma that forces them into stories like these (abducted by aliens and raped by anal probes?) The "more alien, more evil!"...

Ah, can't edit it out anymore. You mentioned it already.

Thought about this too, but this is sort of averted by the Behemoth and the Temblor Bomb. Planet buster weapons are TEH EVIL and in sci fi only the baddies use them. Especially a planet nuker like the Behemoth which can be fired far from the target itself is considered BAD BAD. In WC3 the...

Wing Command lacked what most Sci Fi (in TV) had at the time when WC was most popular: The "Alien Degradation Syndrome" (ADS). It means the aliens get dumber and inferior compared with humans each episode. Best example is Star Trek TNG, where humans outsmart everyone else. The latest...

Actually it's completely fine for cinema. The premise is great for an end of the world/disaster movie like War of the Worlds. I would make the robots never say their names though, a name like "Bumblebee" is not exactly awe inspiring. Focus more on the "machines of destruction" that the evil...

I was very negative towards the Wing Commander movie, but recently watching it again.. let me just say I am way more favourable to it. I think "Transformers" is what changed my mind. Boy, Transformers 3 has the third most successful opening of all time. Fuck me. OK, I haven't seen it, but...

Elite 2: Frontier had tons of extras, too. You had a starmap, a "gazetter" with background stories to the most important star systems, another book that included 8 short stories that played in the in-game universe and finally the manual itself which was written in an "in-universe" style...

Yeah, my wording wasn't great. I shouldn't have put FMV in the the "genre" section. Silent Hunter Wasn't it full of bugs? Ubisoft ceased to support it completely just one year later. Looks "dead". Sturmvoik: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/il-2-sturmovik-birds-of-prey-review?page=2...

Another round: All things FVM Business simulators (Theme Hospital, Pizza Tycoon etc.) "Serious" war simulators (like those super-complicated sub and tank simulators in the 90s) Myst-like-Adventure Reasoning: FMV: Got too expensive, and it got superseded sort of by the graphical...

Off top of my head: "Maze" RPG/Dungeon Crawler (Wizardy, Stone Keep..) Rail shooter (Rebel Assault, Microcosm..) Text Adventure Graphic Adventure (Lucasarts/Sierra style) Flight Sim Space Sim Mech Sim Tactical (X-Com, Jagged Alliance) Reasoning why they have died: Maze RPG...

I've seend hundreds of such lists... And seriously, this is the worst "best games" list of all time. Apart from the "WC4 introduced wingmen" bullshit - they have neverwinter nights and KOTOR but not Baldur's Gate? And where the hell is System Shock? Bioshock 2 is there for God's sakes...

The color problem with older Windows games on new Windows versions can be solved most of the time when you kill explorer.exe and *run the game executable directly from the task manager. * File->New Task It's explorer.exe who tries to reset the color palette on games that use 256 colors...

Speaking of abandonware and EA: On the frontpage of Abandonia.com you can read this: (scroll down) Today we have special news for you: Crusader - No Remorse is no longer protected! New Year is coming up, but you don't feel like playing Christmas games, but some mind-blowing action games...

I am to this day confused about the scene between Angel and Thrakkath in the Wing Commander 3 intro. Angel's comrades are disintegrated, Angel insists that she should share the same fate, Thrakkath says to Angel that "disintegration is not for you" and she spits him in the face. We learn...

I didn't watch your current video, but I've seen the previous ones. Good work! But the end credits bugged me always. Why don't you use the original ending music? It was very fitting and cinematic. Your choices for the music made it always worse. And I prefer a black background just with...

Has nothing to do with storing text files, though. I can understand that they needed a fast 486 for the compiling, but even several megs of text files were storable on any 386. This story should be included on the Mobygames Strike Commander trivia...

Wow, thanks. What a service! Is this the best fan-site on the planet, or what?

Interesting. But, how were they coding the game? They must have had at least portions of the source code on the PCs of the programmers? Do you know whether they used revision control systems back then at Origin? I don't understand why they needed a top-of-the-line 486 to store the raw code...

Well, to quote Bandit: but we're talking about a different company that did tape backups so rarely and squeezed limited resources such that they once lost weeks of work on Strike Commander because an employee ran a catastrophic test build of the game on the same machine that stored the only...

Eh. My God! That a professional software company in the 21st century works like that.. unreal. Did they treat other projects that way, too?